We are back with the Shared Kitchen Roundup covering all things in the shared kitchen world. We don’t want you to miss a thing. While we select stories to share in our monthly newsletter, we just don’t have space for them all! Here are some highlights.
The Food Corridor Features
The Food Corridor, in partnership with Fruition Planning & Management and Purdue University Extension Services, has launched a comprehensive Shared Kitchen Toolkit. Shared Kitchen Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Planning, Launching, and Managing a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen will assist organizations and businesses in developing and operating shared kitchens and food incubators
Read more at Shared Kitchen Toolkit Launched to Help Plan, Market, and Grow Shared Kitchens
Shared Kitchen News
Incubating opportunity
All kitchen incubators are unique and oftentimes programming is what sets them apart. Incubators that help specific populations like refugees, immigrants, and women are on the rise…and for good reason. These programs provide opportunities for individuals to connect with their community, bring culturally relevant opportunities, and create self-sufficiency. We applaud these efforts and are honored to work with so many mission-driven kitchens.
Read more about it here Nonprofits and Governments Pursue Food Incubators for Refugee Resettlement – Nonprofit Quarterly
Is the kitchen dying?
Imagine a home without a kitchen? The rise in delivery is leading some to wonder if this bizarre thought-experiment may be the way of the future. The Spoon always has its finger on the pulse of the future of the kitchen and this article is one to consider.
Consider this Research Confirms: The Kitchen is Dying. Unless it’s not. The Spoon
Food flirts with incubators
What happens when you mix PBS programming with shared kitchens? You make us happy, that’s for sure. This story of family and food should be on your culinary bucket list or at least a fun break from your next Netflix binge.
Check out Food Flirts at Commonwealth Kitchen on PBS’s ‘The Food Flirts’ strut stuff at Dot kitchen Dot News
Developing communities
How do we build community wealth? Land trusts, community supported agriculture, public parts, and cooperative grocers or breweries are all place-based approaches that we applaud. The shared kitchen is another one we are fond of. Community economic development circles may agree.
See why in What Does Inclusive Economic Development Look Like? – Nonprofit Quarterly
Culinary renaissance in rural America?
Kitchen incubation programs can be powerful additions to our rural communities. The USDA agrees and is putting economic development funds to work in Brookings, South Dakota. We are cheering on this project!
Read more here Grant to aid food entrepreneurs – The Brookings Register
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